Camp Lawton
Linked to Civil War Prisons
Linked to Civil War Prisons
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Union prisoners were transferred from Andersonville Prison to Camp Lawton in Millen after Sherman's attack on Atlanta in 1864. Designed to hold 40,000 inmates, the…
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